Senior Java Backend Lead — AWS Cloud Migration

Gravitas Recruitment Group (Global) Ltd

City Of London

Hybrid

GBP 60,000 - 85,000

Full time

22 hours ago
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Job summary

Gravitas Recruitment Group (Global) Ltd is recruiting for a back-office Java services development role in London. The job focuses on development, maintenance and enhancement of services supporting the Back Office at our Financial Services client, with 3 days per week on site in City of London.

The team interacts with IT and business stakeholders; cloud-first approaches are promoted as part of a broader AWS migration.

Qualifications

  • Substantial enterprise Java development experience in a complex, business-critical environment.
  • Strong core Java, object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms and clean-code practices.
  • Hands-on experience building backend services, RESTful APIs and integration components, ideally using Spring/Spring Boot and related enterprise Java frameworks.
  • Strong SQL and relational database skills, including investigation, reconciliation, performance-aware query writing and issue resolution.
  • Experience with automated testing, including unit, integration and regression testing using common Java testing tools.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines, source control, build tools and delivery tooling such as Git, Maven/Gradle, Jenkins.
  • AWS or cloud migration experience, including cloud-ready design, containerisation, Docker, IaC concepts and operational resilience.
  • Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to work across code, data, logs and processes.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with confidence across business and tech teams.
  • Experience with Agile/Scrum or iterative delivery environments with Jira.
  • Self-starter with ownership and delivery focus for critical services.
  • Experience in investment banking or related regulatory domains.
  • Experience with PostgreSQL/Aurora, JPA/Hibernate, Spring Security, messaging and observability tooling.
  • Experience supporting cloud migration, AWS ECS, RDS, Lambda, Terraform, Docker.
  • Awareness of AI-enabled development practices.

Responsibilities

  • Pro-actively communicate with IT and business stakeholders across a range of seniority; document requirements.
  • Support Post Trade functions across Finance, Operations, Regulatory Reporting and more.
  • Champion cloud-first solutions as the bank migrates to AWS.
  • Deliver software against prioritised business and regulatory demands within timelines.
  • Develop and maintain high-quality, testable code with unit/integration testing.
  • Document dependencies, technical complexities and change requests for stakeholders.
  • Ensure engineering stack knowledge is documented and maintained.
  • Provide support aligning with Technology priorities and system resilience.

Skills

Java
Spring/Spring Boot
RESTful APIs
SQL/Relational DB
CI/CD
Cloud/AWS
Testing (unit/integration)
Agile/Scrum
Stakeholder engagement
Documentation
Migration/Cloud-first
PostgreSQL/Aurora
Hibernate/JPA
Docker/Kubernetes

Tools

Spring/Spring Boot
Git
Maven/Gradle
Jenkins
Docker
Terraform
AWS ECS
RDS
S3
PostgreSQL
Aurora
JPA/Hibernate
Spring Security

Job description

Gravitas Recruitment Group (Global) Ltd is recruiting for a back-office Java services development role in London. The job focuses on development, maintenance and enhancement of services supporting the Back Office at our Financial Services client, with 3 days per week on site in City of London.

The team interacts with IT and business stakeholders; cloud-first approaches are promoted as part of a broader AWS migration.

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